Successful Project Management Methods

Author: Yi Zhiyun
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Project management is an effective, even efficient, management method. As human society enters the rapidly changing knowledge economy era, it provides a broad stage for project management to showcase its capabilities. The objects of modern project management are in a relatively open environment, and the work and activities carried out are characterized by uniqueness, teamwork, and relative uncertainty. This is quite different from general operations management, which involves repetitive, functional, and relatively certain work and activities conducted in a more closed environment. Modern project management has pioneered a completely new field of management, formed a brand-new systematic knowledge, and created a series of scientific project management methods. This book combines some "soft" management skills from behavioral science with many hard techniques from mathematical and quantitative sciences, while also integrating modern technology—the application of computer information systems—to achieve the perfection of the knowledge system and the readiness of various management methods. It is hoped that the publication of this book will help project management professionals open up new perspectives, master scientific project management methods, and improve the success rate of project development.